Outer Dark (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679728733)

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road - A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN-10: 0679728732
ISBN-13: 9780679728733
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 06/29/1993
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.14w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/17/1993
Library Journal 01/01/1994

About the Author
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992, and The Crossing.